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Richard Helms Explains `Skimming’

Where there are large flows of money, you will find skimmers

In 1973 I was living in Iran, on leave from my faculty  position at Harvard Business School, helping to start a new business school in Tehran—the Iran Center for Management Studies (ICMS). While there I spent an afternoon with Richard Full entry→

Introduction to the Dark Side

Dark-side strategies extract payments without creating value in return

When you buy a hamburger from McDonald’s you know the product and you know that you value it more than the money paid for it. Combine this sort of voluntary transaction with Darwin’s principle of “survival of the fittest,” and Full entry→